BAFTA and Oscar nominated THE IRON LADY in UK cinemas now
THE IRON LADY, starring Meryl Streep and produced by Damian Jones, is in theatres across the UK, having played to sell-out crowds in its opening weekend. The much-anticipated biopic stars Olivia Colman, Angus Wright and Chris Luscombe, was edited by Justine Wright, and features hair and make-up designed by Marese Langan.
Following Meryl Streep's Best Actress win at the Golden Globes, the film has been nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards, including Best Actress, Best supporting Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Make-Up & Hair, and 2 Oscars, including Best Actress for Meryl Streep.
Daily Telegraph (4*):
One of the great problems of our age is that we’re governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas,” says Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. “Now, thoughts and ideas – that’s what interests me.” It’s a pivotal line in director Phyllida Lloyd and screenwriter Abi Morgan’s absorbing, exhilarating biopic of the United Kingdom’s only female prime minister, but the film itself doesn’t agree. The Iron Lady does not pick over thoughts and ideas for an hour and 45 minutes: Lloyd and Morgan are fascinated by who their subject was and is, and rather less by what she stood, and continues to stand for. Personality politics might have been anathema to Margaret Thatcher MP, but this film is propelled by the sheer power of her presence.
The Observer:
... a stunning performance from Meryl Streep ... Breathtaking in its detail and nuance, its subtle gestures and inflections, this multifaceted jewel of a portrait is altogether grander than the commonplace setting of the film.
Rolling Stone:
Is there anything that Meryl Streep can't do as an actress? One can only marvel at her virtuoso performance as Britain's Margaret Thatcher, the hardass ultraconservative who became the first woman prime minister, from 1979 to 1990 ... The Iron Lady – a kind of female spin on King Lear – is framed with Thatcher – weakened by old age and encroaching dementia (great makeup; J. Edgar, take note) – remembering her youth, her fight for political prominence in a world of men, her marriage to businessman Denis Thatcher (Jim Broadbent) and her neglect of him and their two children. Thatcher's chats with the ghost of her dead husband (bravo, Broadbent) are wonderfully droll. The sharp economy of Lloyd's direction allows the incontestably great Streep to take impressionistic snatches of a life and build a woman in full. This is acting of the highest order.